-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- An entity claiming to be Shifter wrote: : : Nothing stops anyone from running their own name server. However, the root : servers are what 99% of the nameservers out there point at. No one is going : to use dns.joe.schmoe.org as their primary nameserver. : Except of course schmoe.org. Primary name service is usually provided by the organization's own nameserver. The secondary name server should (as per the rfc whose number I forget at the moment) be on a separate network segment. Anyone who lists a machine from root-servers.net as their primary needs to learn a bit more about DNS. Root servers exist to provide an authoritative starting point for recursive lookups, they do not provide name service for anything other than top level domains (com. edu. net. etc.). The NIC has the power to remove domains based upon it's authority among the root servers. - -- Mark Rogaski | Why read when you can just sit and | Member GTI System Admin | stare at things? | Programmers Local wendigo@gti.net | Any expressed opinions are my own | # 0xfffe wendigo@pobox.com | unless they can get me in trouble. | APL-CPIO -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMdAhfg0HmAyu61cJAQEWkQP7BFtGrStaG/ly+xl0T1u079tEM2loUGEk MEDkFzOtHr9kTbab+fKrNwsG23M+PEpB6YIr3QUpfFgByf8jCthUJj7uqtZ952wz iVnGMMgSE1xBMPKEAVqeJcpqzboHQP01URaPsHoya/ybLXtfQR0RUsydnMIOeEbc c2f3LNaLzpM= =oAeG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----